..We suggest that these sequence differences could affect the affinities of the proteins for RNA or other protein components of heterogeneous nuclear RNP complexes, leading to differences in function...

The Rb97D gene encodes a potential RNA-binding protein required for spermatogenesis in Drosophila

..Analysis of a mutant containing a P element inserted into the 5' untranslated region of the gene demonstrates that Rb97D is required for male fertility. Possible models for the function of Rb97D in testes are discussed...

Association of RB97D, an RRM protein required for male fertility, with a Y chromosome lampbrush loop in Drosophila spermatocytes

..These results demonstrate that the proteins that bind lampbrush loops can be essential for fertility. Since RB97D was present only premeiotically, its function is likely to be directly related to the metabolism of the C loop transcripts...

..Sequence identities among the Drosophila Hrb proteins and the vertebrate A and B hnRNP proteins suggest that these proteins may form a distinct subfamily within the larger family of related RNA binding proteins...

The bromodomain: a conserved sequence found in human, Drosophila and yeast proteins

G RaychaudhuriDepartment of Microbiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908Mol Cell Biol 12:847-55. 1992

..melanogaster and mammals...

pen repeat sequences are GGN clusters and encode a glycine-rich domain in a Drosophila cDNA homologous to the rat helix destabilizing protein

S R HaynesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A 84:1819-23. 1987

..We suggest that we have cloned a cDNA encoding a Drosophila single-stranded nucleic acid binding protein...

Genetic and molecular analysis of fs(1)h, a maternal effect homeotic gene in Drosophila

M E DiganDev Biol 114:161-9. 1986

..9 kb, which are homologous to the fs(1)h+ chromosomal region, are found in ovaries and early embryos. The largest RNAs are derived from a 20-kb chromosomal region encompassing the sites of all mapped fs(1)h alleles...